The U.S. Department of Transportation announced $855,950,000 in proposed grants through the Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) discretionary grant program.
“This significant federal investment ...

... and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act (H.R. 2353) updates the federal education grant program to help more students gain the skills they need for in-demand jobs.
July 28, 2019 – New reforms ...

As the partial shutdown of the federal government over border wall funding stretches past 20 days, some state departments of transportation are beginning to curtail planning for new projects while several ...

According to a report in The Hiil, a Senate panel has rejected President Trump’s effort to eliminate Obama-era transportation grants, instead opting to provide a funding boost for the program.
By voice ...

... by supporting safety and health training courses and other programs.
Grantees will use the funds to provide miners with federally mandated training. The grants cover training and retraining of miners ...

U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced more than $4 million in grants from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) designed to accelerate innovation in highway project delivery. The funds ...

... a tangible plan with actual revenues for the HTF before its projected insolvency in August 2014.
The new proposal suggests combining the federal passenger rail program with the highway, transit and safety ...

... ected in 2021 without congressional action. There is already evidence that some states have begun to postpone planning for new projects until there is more clarity regarding federal infrastructure spe ...

... if policymakers fail to act expeditiously, state and local policymakers may choose to postpone certain projects given the rising uncertainty of federal funding. The highway/street and transportation categories ...

... utility of the BUILD program comes from how it differs from most other federal transportation programs.
It is extremely flexible: funds can be awarded to any public entity and can fund almost any kind ...

... eliminate the cap on the Passenger Facility Charge (PFC), a locally-imposed, Federally-authorized user fee that airports may collect from their passengers to finance airport-related projects.
DeFazio’s ...

... (USACE) jurisdiction over the discharge of pollutants to navigable waters, which is expressly prohibited without authorization under a federal permitting program. “Navigable waters” are defined in section ...

... on federalgrants for both operating revenues and capital funding.
States can’t access their whole year’s worth of 2019 money from the Highway Trust Fund, as they could in other years. Typically, the ...

... (ARTBA).
Increased transportation investment by federal, state and local governments will help drive the growth across all modes, ARTBA Chief Economist Dr. Alison Premo Black said.
Total domestic ...

... the Navajo Nation, Guam, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
Grantees will use the funds to provide miners with federally mandated training. The grants cover training and retraining ...

... while a third blocks funding of Federal Transit Administration policy changes to its Capital Investment Grants or CIG program – a source of controversy ever since the FTA issued a “dear colleague” letter ...

... revenue for the federal Highway Trust Fund and streamline the permitting and approval process to no more than two years. This would have a significant, positive impact on the permitting process for expanding ...

... announced the availability of $10,537,000 in state grant funding to provide federally mandated training and retraining of miners and mine operators working at surface and underground coal and metal/nonmetal ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) cleared the path for CRH plc to acquire Overland Park, Kan.-based Ash Grove Cement for $3.5 billion after the company agreed to divest facilities in three states. ...

... expensive explosives and allow for researchers to get large federally funded grants; it had no practical application. Today the industry understands that shock energy is not what breaks rock in a typical ...

... billion in federal funds to spur at least $1.5 trillion in infrastructure investments with partners at the state, local, tribal, and private level.
New investments will be made in rural America, whic ...